The story:

Egyptian security officials arrested 11 more political reform activists, including an award-winning blogger, Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, Human Rights Watch said today. This brings to more than 100 the number of people detained over the past two weeks for exercising their rights to freedom of assembly and expression.

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They initially faced charges of blocking traffic, but the authorities later transferred their cases to state security prosecutors. Yesterday, authorities extended the detention of 28 activists arrested on April 26 and 27 for another 15 days. All those arrested between April 24 and May 7 for demonstrating now face charges of “insulting the president,” “spreading false rumors,” and “disturbing public order” under the parallel state security legal system set up under the Emergency Law.

Now, by show of hands, who amongst you, Egyptians, has not indulged recently in at least one of those “charges”? … Certainly, not I!

Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Rick Hillier to the cbc:

“Opening a Tim Hortons to serve our troops in Afghanistan strengthens an already superb relationship between two great Canadian institutions. I would like to thank Tim Hortons for their endless support of the Canadian Forces over the years.”

Awesome! Now, they wouldn’t mind staying a bit longer…

James Copnall of BBC News:

Mubarak also brandished the Cup himself, as if he - and not Egypt’s footballers - had provided the heroics on the pitch.

The Egyptian saying goes like “if you don’t know what to do with your money, buy some pigeons and let them fly.” Some investors in Dubai have upped it a notch — they’re planning a US$1 billion project that includes :

… flying villas [that] elevate in the air. So you have the accessibility to a villa that not only rotates on ground, but it gives you up to a 15 metre to 20 metre up in-the-air elevation. It’s a mind-blowing project.

I know some people who deserve a mind-blowing.

via: SD

A: Zozma, Zosca, Zozca, Duhr, Dhur, and Zubra.

Q: What are other names of the star Zosma (Delta Leonis)?

via crooks and liars:
The daily show reports the end of “the war on terror” phase phrase.

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(just trying to answer sean’s question)

If you are into physics, the article linked below might make you wish you weren’t — that is, if you don’t blow your heads off before you finish it. (On the other hand, if you’re not into physics, you might think that it’s just ridic-ollas — believe me, it’s worse!) The conclusion is: don’t read “The Quantum Middle East?”.

Drown out annoying roommates and co-workers today, in pink noise, for free! Please use responsibly!

Where is the crickets’ mix when you need it!?

I lost it! or at least I think so; the machine is at the repair shop –being diagnosed. I have a feeling that the hard disk is gone for good, but at the same time, I still can’t believe it!

It was so young!

Still, we shared so many memories. In fact, its memory was always more faithful than mine (I guess the difference is in the raw material; organic compounds vs. silicon), and now, what do I have–to remind me of all these things? Aaah! The bookmarks, the chat-logs, the snippets of reflection, the pictures, the movies, the code, the data, the calendar, the music, the preferences –aah the preferences; my hard drive knew exactly how I liked my stuff!

Everyone kept tellling me how I should be duplicating and backing-up, but -what can I say- monogomy is ingrained in me, so is procrastination and laziness!

This is not only lamentation, this is a reminder for you all — value the time you have with your drives, cause you never know when their time will be up!